- Author
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Ohlemiller, T. J.
- Title
- Flammability of Upholstered Furniture.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NISTIR 6030
June 1997
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Book or Conf
- U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 13th Joint Panel Meeting. Volume 2. March 13-20, 1996,
Gaithersburg, MD,
Beall, K. A., Editors,
215-223 p.,
1997
- Keywords
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fire safety
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fire research
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upholstered furniture
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flammability
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high rise buildings
- Abstract
- Upholstered furniture flammability is both an ignitability and a heat release rate issue. Limited work on ignitability has been done recently. The major focus in three recent studies is the intensity of burning which follows exposure to a source strong enough to assure ignition. No adequate model of the post-ignition fire growth process exists. Examination of the attempts to correlate Cone Calorimeter data with full-scale heat release rate shows mixed results. Reasonably good correlations have been obtained but it is not clear that they have broad applicability and thus clear usefulness in designing furniture with known fire performance.